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Month: December 2014

Any DBA worth their salt will have automated the deployment of any version of SQL server using a SQL server configuration ini and a standard installation script. Through the ini, you can manage exactly what you required to be installed, where you want it installed and how you want your features to run.

With the introduction of SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced some new features that can be included in your network standard installation, so I figured it was time to update the list of features and their abbreviated name that needs to be included in the ini.

I just installed Windows 2012 R2 server for lab testing, and installed the Hyper-V role over it, then noticed that the server shutdown automatically after a period of time.

by checking the event viewer, below event was logged prior the shutdown:

Log Name: System

Source: USER32

EventID: 1074

Description:
The process C:\Windows\system32\wlms\wlms.exe (<Computer Name>) has initiated the shutdown of computer <Computer Name> on behalf of user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM for the following reason: Other (Planned)ReasonCode: 0x80000000ShutdownType: shutdownComment: The license period for this installation of Windows has expired. The operating system is shutting down.

As the event states: The license period for this installation of Windows has expired.

Activating the server will solve this problem permanently, but for meanwhile I re-armed the activation using this command:

During my work on documentations, I usually will need to take different snapshots of the current documentations folder at every milestone.

This batch will ask you for the folder you want to backup, then will create a new folder inside this folder named “AutoBackup” –> then will create a new folder with the current date and time inside this AutoBackup folder.

Issue:

In Lync Server 2010 While configuring a trunk to enable media bypass, and disable (un-enable) the refer support (as the recommended settings when creating a SIP trunk to Cisco Unified Communications Manager CUCM), you may receive the below error when you try to commit changes:

Cause:

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Solution:

in the below example, my Trunk name is: PstnGateway:10.0.0.20

– in the trunk prosperities, Temporarily un-enable the media bypass, and commit to save changes:

– Now, let’s open Lync Management shell and check the status of RTCP Active Calls, and RTCP Calls on hold:

We see both are True by default, Also note the EnableSessionTimer status is False.

– Now, run the below commands to set RTCPActiveCalls and RTCPCallsonHold as false: